OpenShot 1.1 Released – Gets Undo/Redo, New effects, Will be in Ubuntu 10.04!

By , Published March 8, 2010

OpenShot – OMG! Ubuntu!’s favourite video editor for Linux – released a new version today.

Version 1.1 brings with it a buffet of new features, speed improvements and general all round greatness that we’ve come to expect from the fast-paced development of the OpenShot team.

Amongst those new features are: -

  • Undo/Redo support
  • History pane
  • Dynamic tiling (Seriously, ’tis awesome)
  • A bunch of new effects including ‘cartoon’ and ‘edge glow’
  • Easy fade in/out of clips and audio

The new dynamic tiling effect in OpenShot 1.1

Demo
As always, OpenShot developer Jonothan Thomas has made a new video showing off some of these improvements.

OpenShot 1.1.0 Released! from Jonathan Thomas on Vimeo.

Download
If you’re using Ubuntu 10.04 already then 1.1 will find its way into repos shortly and will be installable from the Ubuntu Software Centre – just search for ‘openshot’.

Karmic users can either add the OpenShot PPA (see below) or download the .deb files, which also work for Jaunty or Intrepid users, too, @ openshotvideo.com/2008/04/download.html

PPA

  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonoomph/openshot-edge
  • sudo apt-get update
  • sudo apt-get install openshot openshot-doc
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://www.colinmccarthy.co.uk ColinMcCarthy

    This is a great app and just what Ubuntu and Linux have needed. It’s well worth donating to this project to help developer continue. One of the members of the Kent Linux User Group did a great demo of OpenShot at our last meeting and made a screencast of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKD0GhpFVnY and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPdajrtnfhU

  • Anonymous

    That’s fantastic, what a great video.

    These guys are doing everything right – building a quality application, in a niche that Linux needs, and they’re publicizing it well with professional quality videos.

  • Martini1179

    I’m glad that Openshot will be a great Linux video editor, but the video was very lackluster, especially when looking at the project’s features page. I was hoping for a video that would show off more of the features and “sell it.”

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Seconded. Which is a shame as the videos are usually a bit more “SLAP! BANG! INSTALL IT!”. I’ll probably make a video myself later and replace this one with it.

    • http://ndrw.me AndrewNoNumbers

      Nah, I liked it. Those videos that walk you through every “Wow New Feature” of a program are pretty boring. This one had style. And at least it told me that OpenShot supports transitions, which PiTiVi doesn’t yet.

      • Anonymous

        I agree, this video convinced me to use Openshot. i loved the transitions and the overall quality of the video and music. In don’t care about the flashy stuff.

        Can someone remind me why Pitivi is the default video editor of Ubuntu?

  • http://seifsallam.co.cc/ Seif Sallam

    They must have a new Professional Logo, because its all about how you present your self, or in this case application.

  • Anonymous

    looks good to me, although the video doesnt exactly sell it. What ever happened to the VLC video editor project??

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      That’ll come along at a slow-ish pace so don’t expect a release too soon!

      As for the video, i just watched it again and it is actually really … cheesy?

  • Anonymous

    Nice, been playing with it a bit and am very impressed. This should be the default movie editor in lucid, you can do so much more than with PiTiVi.

    • http://ndrw.me AndrewNoNumbers

      Personally I like PiTiVi better, despite the fact that it is a bit farther back in developmental stages. It seems like it has more polish than OpenShot.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, great video. Can’t wait to edit some videos of my daughter!

  • Ubuntu user

    Was quite surprised to read it’ll be bundled in the latest official Ubuntu release. Eugenia, a blogger with a long experience in video editing and with several videos to her credit (including the short one in Ubuntu) reviewed it and found it thoroughly unusable.

    http://www.osnews.com/story/22715/OpenShot_A_Prematurely_Released_Video_Editor

    Surely releasing an unstable will tarnish Ubuntu’s reputation. PiTiVi while still quite basic is at least solid. Unless some minor miracle was performed in 1.1 as regards stability, I’m afraid the application is simply not ready for prime time. The end result will be sheer frustration for users, and for the developers.

  • 1916home

    Well, I made a video. It’s “cheesy” (in more ways than one). Did a short flick about my pizza party the other night. Played around with many of the options. Transitions, fade, and I liked adding filters or effects to the video I put in there. All in all it was a lot of fun to make!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVsbLu0crkI

    It’s a little bit different than the other video programs I used to use in XP years ago. But for free, it is AWESOME. This one took me about an hour to put it together with whatever junk I had laying around. Didnt read instructions, just put it together. Im sure I could do a much better job if I spent a lil more time at it.

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